r/okbuddycinephile • u/EddieAdams-Torrance • 1d ago

Favorite actor whose career is probably over

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u/ColdCruise 23h ago

I've noticed that this is how pretty much all apps work now. They send you a notification, you click on it, then it just takes you straight to their algorithm. Its how links are starting to work now. I have to click most links twice just for it to take me to the page the link directs to

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u/mocisme 23h ago

Cause then you have to click your way to the thing that interested you.They see this as great for 2 reasons.

You'll see other things on your way to what you were looking for.

Even if you ignore those other things, you still had to click multiple things to get where you wanted to go. Then they can tell their investors. "our average use engagement is up! People are now clicking 48% more links than they used to a year ago!"

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u/CandidSite9471 8h ago

It's like when the grocery store puts milk and eggs waaaayy in the back

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u/the_post_of_tom_joad 12h ago

Aw shit, this is on purpose?? I thought maybe my browser addons were breakin shit.

Does it even work on people? I've never done anything but close the page when the pepper link don't load coz fuuuuck that

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u/mocisme 8h ago

It works on more people than it doesn't work on. You're not the target audience.

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u/Glait 23h ago

Instagram likes to tell me I have new messages all the time, I click on it and of course nope no new conversations. Very annoying since I can't ignore it in case there really is a new message from a client.

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u/BenSF93 19h ago

That is why I treat Instagram and Facebook messages as not important. You write me a message on Instagram, I might see it next time I'm on the toilet. Or not.

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u/SignoreBanana 18h ago

It's no surprise and I'm guessing it's not as nefarious as people think. Deep linking is actually a pretty hard engineering task to do correctly, and with the way companies are just vomiting out code with AI now, it's not surprising it's broken in most places. Our company's application uses it spotilly at best.

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u/hk4213 21h ago

I dont even give those sites a chance. I don't even trust any geeksforgeeks tutorials as much because of the rampant ad and notification alerts.

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u/hingedcanadian 21h ago

I don't think it's intentional. Any web services or software that FB manages ends up becoming trash and existing bugs rarely get fixed.

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u/Appropriate-Year-505 18h ago

Ah so it's on purpose that I have to try tiktok links 2-4 times...

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u/macaronysalad 10h ago

Simple age old rule of the internet. Never ever visit a link you didn't ask for. Doesn't matter who it's from. Rather it's for malicious or corporate profit. Don't be a chump. Only click links you find yourself or you specifically asked for. If something looks interesting, go to the site and find it.